FYI, I knew that’d draw Rich out of his shell. Josh Gardner wrote: > remember hearing about such a concept, and I think (maybe) that is was > being called “XB-70” at the time. Yep. > An interesting fact that I learned about the MiG-25… Alcohol...
When I was searching for data on the SST planes I actually ran into the Federation of American Scientists. In later surfing I’ve discovered that they are maintaining two REALLY cool web sites: US Black Aircraft http://www.fas.org/irp/eprint/mahon/index.html...
More on the TU-144! Apparently NASA has been conducting some joint experiments using an old TU-144. Very interesting.. http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Projects/TU-144/ See if you can spot the differences!...
When the Concorde was under development in France, their major rival was a Soviet-built plane called the TU-144. It was essentially a slightly better imitation of the Concorde — and was arguably Andrei Tupolev’s finest design acheivement. These supersonic...
So there’s considerable hubbub these days about WAP. Nokia seems to be pushing it and given all the bumfuzzling going on (including at Cisco) in other standards and the lack of a coherent direction, I think WAP will win. There’s also a good WAP article in...
I keep thinking of Gersham’s point several weeks (months?) ago about China and their interest in Kosovo. It is plausible that the Chinese were aiding Milosevich by providing intelligence out of that embassy. If this were the case, then at least the CIA is being...
I once met Weird Al when I Was still DJing at Richard’s on Richards. He was definitely weird. Anyway, never being one to miss the chance to piggy- back on someone else’s marketing hype: http://www.sagabegins.com/ -Ian.
Canada at risk as tech salaries soar, study says U.S. paycheques are rising faster as skills shortage grows Karyn Standen The Ottawa Citizen The high-tech skills shortage in Canada and the U.S. is getting worse, and Canadian companies might be the biggest losers...
Once in a while I’m right about something. Jamie Zawinski, whose home page lives at http://www.jwz.org, was the principal architect of Mozilla.ORG and a longtime Mozilla coder. He just quit his gig at Netscape with a long and overly melodramatic soliloquy at the...
http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990202/10/odd-hockey —-=—- Kuwait Hockey Yields 79 Goals But Dreams Of Glory (Last updated 10:28 AM ET February 2) YONGPYONG, South Korea (Reuters) – Kuwait’s ice hockey team has no place to go but up after yielding...
Ian Andrew Bell has been bending bits into business since 1993. He created Tingle, RosterBot, RingCentral, and other things celebrated and ignominious.
He is also a Hockeyist, Motorcyclist, and Aviation Enthusiast. Follow him on twitter as @ianb or find him on LinkedIN.
